Living in Two Worlds : Pastoral Responses to Possession in Singapore
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
363146925X
ISBN-13
9783631469255
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 1994
Print length
366 Pages
Weight
472 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.00 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
South East AsiaSocial, group or collective psychology
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Edinburgh University, 1992).
This is a study of Singapore pastors'' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors'' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors'' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
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